AipProtectionAction

Azure Information Protection is a service that allows organizations to classify and label sensitive data, and apply policies to control how that data is accessed and shared.

AipProtectionAction is a type of event that is recorded in the Office 365 Unified Audit Log. It represents an attempt to apply protection to a file or email. The event is useful because it shows how data is protected within an organization.

Access the Office 365 Unified Audit Log

The audit logs can be accessed using the following methods:

• The audit log search tool in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.
• The Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet in Exchange Online PowerShell.
• The Office 365 Management Activity API.

Audit log search tool

1. Go to the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and sign in.
2. In the left pane of the compliance portal, select Audit.

   Note

   If you don't see Audit in the left pane, see Roles and role groups in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Purview compliance for information about permissions.

3. On the New Search tab, set Record type to AipDiscover and configure the other parameters.
4. Click Search to run the search using the criteria. In the results pane, select an event to view the results. Both discover and access operations can be viewed.

For more information on viewing the audit logs in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, see Audit log activities.

Search Unified Audit Log in PowerShell

To access the Unified Audit Log using PowerShell, first connect to an Exchange Online PowerShell session by completing the following steps.

Establish remote PowerShell session

This will establish a remote PowerShell session with Exchange Online. Once the connection is established, run Exchange Online cmdlets to manage your Exchange Online environment.

Open a PowerShell window and run the Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement command to install the Exchange Online Management module. This module provides cmdlets that can be used to manage Exchange Online.

1. Connect-IPPSSession is a PowerShell cmdlet used to create a remote connection to an Exchange Online PowerShell session.
2. Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement is a PowerShell cmdlet used to import the Exchange Online Management module into the current PowerShell session.

# Import the PSSSession and Exchange Online cmdlets
Connect-IPPSSession
Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement

Connect with a specific user

Command to prompt for a specific user for your Exchange Online credentials.

$UserCredential = Get-Credential 

Command to connect to Exchange Online using the provided credentials.

 Connect-ExchangeOnline -Credential $UserCredential -ShowProgress $true 

Connect with credentials in the current session

Connect to Exchange Online using the credentials in the current session.

Connect-ExchangeOnline

Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet

The Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet is a PowerShell command that can be used to search the Office 365 Unified Audit Log. The Unified Audit Log is a record of user and administrator activity in Office 365 that can be used to track events. For best practices on using this cmdlet, see Best Practices for using Search-UnifiedAuditLog.

To extract the AipProtectionAction events from the Unified Audit Log using PowerShell, you can use the following command. This will search the Unified Audit Log for the specified date range and return any events with the record type "AipProtectionAction". The results will be exported to a CSV file at the specified path.

Search-UnifiedAuditLog -RecordType AipProtectionAction -StartDate (Get-Date).AddDays(-100) -EndDate (Get-Date) | Export-Csv -Path <output file>

Note

This is just an example of how the Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet can be used. You may need to adjust the command and specify additional parameters based on your specific requirements. For more information on using PowerShell for unified audit logs, see search unified audit log.

Office 365 Management Activity API

In order to be able to query the Office 365 Management API endpoints, you'll need to configure your application with the right permissions. For a step-by-step guide, see Get started with Office 365 Management APIs.

Attributes of the AipProtectionAction event

Event	Type	Description
ApplicationId	GUID	The ID of the application performing the operation.
ApplicationName	String	Friendly name of the application performing the operation. (Outlook, OWA, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
ClientIP	IPv4/IPv6	The IP address of the device that was used when the activity was logged. For some services, the value displayed in this property might be the IP address for a trusted application (for example, Office on the web apps) calling into the service on behalf of a user and not the IP address of the device used by person who performed the activity.
CreationTime	Date/time	The date and time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when the user performed the activity.
DeviceName	String	The device on which the activity happened.
Id	GUID	Unique identifier of an audit record.
Operation	String	The operation type for the audit log. For AipProtectionAction, operations can include: - SensitivityLabelApplied - SensitivityLabelUpdated - SensitivityLabelRemoved - SensitivityLabelPolicyMatched - SensitivityLabeledFileOpened
OrganizationId	GUID	The GUID for your organization's Office 365 tenant. This value will always be the same for your organization, regardless of the Office 365 service in which it occurs.
Platform	Double	The platform where the activity occurred from. 0 = Unknown 1 = Windows 2 = MacOS 3 = iOS 4 = Android 5 = Web Browser
ProcessName	String	The relevant process name (Outlook, MSIP.App, WinWord, etc.)
ProductVersion	String	Version of the AIP client.
RecordType	Double	The type of operation indicated by the record.
Scope	Double	0 represents that the event was created by a hosted O365 service. 1 represents that the event was created by an on-premises server.
UserId	String	The User Principal Name (UPN) of the user who performed the action that resulted in the record being logged.
UserKey	GUID	An alternative ID for the user identified in the UserId property. This property is populated with the passport unique ID (PUID) for events performed by users in SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Exchange.
UserType	Double	The type of user that performed the operation. 0 = Regular 1 = Reserved 2 = Admin 3 = DcAdmin 4 = System 5 = Application 6 = ServicePrincipal 7 = CustomPolicy 8 = SystemPolicy
Version	Double	Version ID of the file in the operation.
Workload	String	Stores the Office 365 service where the activity occurred (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc).